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As the Public Employees Insurance Agency embarks on a series of what are sure to be contentious public hearings this month over plans to cut insuree benefits by more than $120 million, a number of readers have asked how the state-run health insurance plan got in such a mess.

Monongalia, Ohio county school test scores best in state
By Ryan Quinn, The Charleston Gazette-Mail

Monongalia and Ohio were the top-scoring counties, and Barbour, Logan and McDowell were the bottom-scoring counties in math and English/language arts last school year on West Virginia’s new Common Core-aligned standardized test.

Kanawha County ranked No. 14 in math and No. 27 in English, while Putnam County ranked third in math and seventh in English. A...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state School Building Authority placed reconsideration of the Fayette County CEFP (Comprehensive Educational Facilities Plan) Amendment back on its agenda for the authority’s Nov. 9 meeting.

Mountain State Justice filed a lawsuit on behalf of Fayette County against the School Building Authority earlier this month.

Commentary: The untenable situation with Fayette County schools
By Hoppy Kercheval, WV MetroNews

State School Superintendent Dr. Michael Martirano has visited over 200 of our schools since he took the job just over one year ago. He’s been to 46 of the state’s 55 counties, including Fayette County twice.

When asked to describe conditions at some of the Fayette County schools, he uses one word: Deplorable.